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TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata... con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta. Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1745.
2° (445 x 308mm). Half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 6pp. list of subscribers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedicatee's portrait, 20 engraved plates with separately engraved borders, the 20 cantos with engraved vignette head- and tailpieces (5 full-page), full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi, all by M.Schedl after Piazzetta, engraved historiated initials. (Occasional light old marginal staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, decorated edges (neatly rebacked preserving original spine, corners neatly repaired).
FINE COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY. The first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata, with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The work was dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria: the engraved portrait of her is by Felix Polanzani after Giambatista Piazzetta. The other plates and illustrations are unsigned, but also after Piazzetta. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256; Cohen-de Ricci 978.
2° (445 x 308mm). Half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 6pp. list of subscribers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedicatee's portrait, 20 engraved plates with separately engraved borders, the 20 cantos with engraved vignette head- and tailpieces (5 full-page), full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi, all by M.Schedl after Piazzetta, engraved historiated initials. (Occasional light old marginal staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, decorated edges (neatly rebacked preserving original spine, corners neatly repaired).
FINE COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY. The first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata, with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The work was dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria: the engraved portrait of her is by Felix Polanzani after Giambatista Piazzetta. The other plates and illustrations are unsigned, but also after Piazzetta. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256; Cohen-de Ricci 978.